Leicester v Manchester United: Premier League – live!

12.37pm EDT 12:37

79 min: What a chance for Wes Morgan! Thomas’s cross found him in an absurd amount of space on the penalty spot, but his attempted volley connected only with the freshest Leicester air. Moments later, Vardy heads onto the roof of the net from a right-wing cross. That wasn’t much of a chance; Morgan’s was.

Updated at 12.37pm EDT

12.36pm EDT 12:36

78 min “Can we talk about Fernandes’s penalty style?” says Matthew Richman. “It’s been beautifully predictable: watch the keeper move, roll it into the other corner. Le Tissier, Cantona, Hazard all had the same approach and I don’t think I ever saw them miss five between them.”

It’s also more extravagant than those three, with the skip beforehand, which increases the potential embarrassment if you miss.

12.35pm EDT 12:35

77 min United make their first change. Jesse Lingard replaces Mason Greenwood, who has worked hard on the right wing without having any opportunities to bust the net from 20 yards.

12.33pm EDT 12:33

75 min: Chance for Barnes! A low cross from the right takes a couple of deflection and drops in no-man’s land on the six-yard line. Barnes gets there first and hits a shot on the turn, but it’s a meek effort that goes straight into de Gea’s grasp.

Updated at 12.34pm EDT

12.33pm EDT 12:33

74 min Evans was booked the penalty incident, so Martin Atkinson must have decided it was his foul. It’s the right answer but with the wrong working.

12.31pm EDT 12:31

73 min Leicester make a triple change before kicking off. Dennis Praet, Demarai Gray and Harvey Barnes replacing Tielemans, Albrighton and Choudhury.

12.29pm EDT 12:29

It was a really cool penalty from Fernandes. Schmeichel danced left and right but Fernandes still did his little jump and then send Schmeichel the wrong way.

12.27pm EDT 12:27

PENALTY GIVEN! Bruno Fernandes will take it.

Updated at 12.28pm EDT

12.27pm EDT 12:27

Evans definitely got the ball but Morgan fouled Martial a split-second before that, so the penalty should stand.

Updated at 12.29pm EDT

12.27pm EDT 12:27

PENALTY TO MANCHESTER UNITED! Evans has been penalised for a lunging tackle on Martial. I think Evans got the ball, on reflection, but Martial may have been fouled first by Morgan. It’s a tough one for VAR to overturn, certainly, as I can’t see a clear and obvious error.

Updated at 12.30pm EDT

12.25pm EDT 12:25

68 min “Wales, reporting in,” says Matt Dony. “Socially distanced in a friends’ garden, with beer and pizza. Not exotic. Keeping it real.”

Updated at 12.26pm EDT

12.25pm EDT 12:25

67 min Bruno Fernandes muffs a relatively straightforward pass to put Rashford through on goal. Fernandes has been really poor today; I’m sure it’s fatigue.

12.23pm EDT 12:23

65 min “Hi Rob,” says Peter Oh. “This match has Vardy winner in the fourth minute of stoppage time written all over it.”

With a VAR controversy, probably.

12.22pm EDT 12:22

64 min If United do lose, and whether it’s fair or not, they will be slaughtered for their passive performance.

12.21pm EDT 12:21

63 min United look like they have unconsciously settled for 0-0. Lindelof is booked for a needless lunge at Vardy.

12.19pm EDT 12:19

61 min Thomas’s angles a cross towards Tielemans, who mistimes a difficult volley onto his standing foot and behind. The referee gives a corner. We’ll hear plenty about that if it leads to a £50m goal…

Updated at 12.19pm EDT

12.18pm EDT 12:18

60 min: Vardy hits the bar! Tielemans curled a flat free-kick towards the near post, where Vardy twisted his neck to help the ball on towards the far post. It looped over everyone and dropped onto the angle of post and bar.

12.17pm EDT 12:17

59 min Greenwood commits a needless foul on Perez, 20 yards from goal on the left wing. Tielemans will take the free-kick…

12.16pm EDT 12:16

58 min Leicester’s first change: Ayoze Perez replaces Kelechi Iheanacho.

12.16pm EDT 12:16

58 min Greenwood slips a through pass to Martial, and Schmeichel hares from his line to claim the ball just in front of Martial. That was superb goalkeeping.

12.14pm EDT 12:14

56 min United calm things down by keeping the ball for a minute or so. It’s all a bit ponderous, mind.

12.11pm EDT 12:11

53 min In other news, it is hooning it down at the King Power Stadium.

12.10pm EDT 12:10

52 min Another good near-post clearance from Lindelof from an Albrighton cross. In terms of sustained possession, Leicester are having their best spell of the match.

12.10pm EDT 12:10

52 min “You have a reader in Stockholm,” says Brian Cloughley. “I was surprised to find a bouncer at the sports bar this afternoon, and couldn’t understand why entry depended on what team I supported. Turns out it’s a Stockholm derby today (AIK v Djurgården) so there’s little chance of finding a TV showing the English football. I’ve had to settle for outrageously priced beers at a sunny waterside bar with the MBM for company. Keep up the good work!”

12.09pm EDT 12:09

51 min The pace of the game has increased since half-time. There still isn’t much quality, though. Leicester miss James Maddison and United miss Bruno Fernandes, who looks mentally shattered.

12.07pm EDT 12:07

49 min “I’m a fortysomething woman in Ireland, does that count,? says Lisa C. “No relation to Mel.”

12.07pm EDT 12:07

48 min Albrighton plays a one-two with Iheanacho, surges into the area and slides a low cross towards Vardy. Lindelof, perfectly placed at the near post, puts it behind for a corner.

12.05pm EDT 12:05

47 min Matic slices the Leicester defence open with a superb pass to Martial, who moves into the area and is denied by an exemplary last-ditch tackle from Justin. Great defending.

12.04pm EDT 12:04

47 min “‘It’s all a bit ponderous from United’,” says Michael Meagher in Cádiz, quoting one of my first-half entries. “A survey of the post-Ferguson years. Now available in ebook format.”

11.59am EDT 11:59

Thanks for all your emails. There isn’t time to publish them all but it seems we have readers in Bergen, Panamá, a cabin in the woods of British Columbia, Valence, Doha, “a face-meltingly hot Rome”, Canadian Shield, Sharjah, New Mexico, Nauru island, the Catalan Pyrenee, Stockholm, Kolkata, Murcia, California, Lund, NYC, Siem Reap in Cambodia, Trinidad and Tobago, St Quentin la Poterie, the top of the Canadian Rockies, on a boat between Germany and Denmark – and, most importantly of all, Nottinghamshire.

Updated at 12.00pm EDT

11.48am EDT 11:48

45+3 min Chelsea have taken the lead against Wolves through a delicious Mason Mount free-kick. That means this game is almost certainly a Champions League decider.

11.47am EDT 11:47

45+2 min Fernandes’s corner is headed away but only as far as Rashford, whose vicious half-volley from a tight angle is beaten away by Schmeichel. Good save.

11.46am EDT 11:46

45+1 min Three minutes of added time. Pogba and Fernandes combine nicely in a tight area to find Martial, whose deflected shot on the turn spins behind for a corner.

11.45am EDT 11:45

45 min “Hello Rob,” says Neil Carter. “£50 million on a full back who cannot pass the ball. Am I missing something? Rashford doesn’t look fit to me either, Ighalo to come on second half and move Martial to the left.”

I think Rashford’s been quite lively. I agree about Wan-Bissaka but a) people can improve (see Gary Neville) and b) he is a quite brilliant defender. I’d be tempted to try him at centre back when the opportunity arises, though I’d worry about some of those last-ditch tackles.

11.44am EDT 11:44

44 min As things stand United are going into the Champions League, but I reckon Leicester will be happier with how this half has gone.

11.43am EDT 11:43

43 min “Hi Rob,” says Graeme Thorn. “Just to counterbalance all these exotic places people are following the MBM from, I can tell you that I am a fortysomething single man from the shires (Nottinghamshire, to be precise).”

And now I am at peace with my world.

11.42am EDT 11:42

42 min: And now a chance for Rashford! Pogba’s clipped ball forward spins wickedly on the edge of the area, wrongfooting Justin in the process. The ball comes to Rashford, who dummies Justin superbly but then sidefoots high and wide. It was a bit too close for his body for that type of shot.

Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford shoots over. Photograph: Oli Scarff/PA

Updated at 11.56am EDT

11.41am EDT 11:41

41 min: Chance for Vardy! Thomas breaks down the left and clips a good cross to the near post. Vardy gets in front of Lindelof but mistimes his attempted shot and the ball rolls to safety. It bounces up slightly awkwardly but Vardy will still feel he should have scored.

11.39am EDT 11:39

40 min “Following this dribble of a game on Miyako island, under the stars on a balmy night,” says Richardo Tunaley. No tourists. Do I win five minutes of decent football? (However unlikely with this particular game) Stay safe everyone!”

11.39am EDT 11:39

39 min There’s nothing to report. Not a thing. Both teams have been so guarded.

11.36am EDT 11:36

37 min “Following from Alabama, in the US, which is almost completely opposite in direction and climate from 40,000 feet above Norway,” says Dennis Madsen.

11.36am EDT 11:36

36 min It’s all a bit ponderous from United, and Leicester are coming into the game more and more.

Manchester United’s manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer talks to his assistant Michael Carrick in the stands. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/NMC pool / free to use

Updated at 12.08pm EDT

11.35am EDT 11:35

35 min “Following on Interstate 29 – North of Kansas City, Missouri,” says Andy Waddington. “Luckily I’m a passenger in the car.”

That’s not in the shires either!

11.35am EDT 11:35

34 min Iheanacho breaks forward, waits for support and finds Tielemans in the D. He controls the ball and tries a gentle sidefoot – “more of a putt, really” as Martin Tyler puts in on Sky – that goes just wide of the far post. De Gea had it covered, though it was hit so softly that I’m surprised he didn’t have time to pick it up.

11.33am EDT 11:33

32 min: Bruno Fernandes has a goal disallowed for offside. It was the right decision, he was a few yards offside. It was nice goal, though: a clip over the top from Pogba, which Fernandes took on the chest before half-volleying past Schmeichel.

Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United puts the ball past Kasper Schmeichel of Leicester City but it’s ruled offside. Photograph: Matthew Peters/Manchester United/Getty Images

Updated at 11.39am EDT

11.30am EDT 11:30

30 min Bruno Fernandes hasn’t been in the game as much as United would like either. He played one lovely reverse cross/pass towards Williams just before that Iheanacho chance. That aside he has been relatively peripheral.

Updated at 11.30am EDT